Saturday, October 17, 2015

Doctoring Evidence

Like every other trade union, with the possible exception of the official City of London trade union known as the Parliamentary Conservative Party, the British Medical Association has an unfortunate tendency to mislead the poor thick-headed proles who are its members. The BMA opposed Twizzler Lansley's Health and Social Care Act, on the grounds that it would lead to chaos in the NHS and wouldn't help patient care; the BMA opposed the coalition's cuts to nursing places, on the grounds that they would lead to a shortage of nurses. Thanks to these very reforms, as we all know, the NHS is every day and in every way getting better and better, while living within its means and being propped up only slightly by migrant labour. Yet despite all this, and despite the awesome benignity of the Government's intentions, the BMA has got its junior doctors all riled up and protesting about the latest attempt to help them towards a new and improved life of Sino-American working conditions. What can be the problem?